Noun
headmaster (plural headmasters)
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A male headteacher.
- Synonym: (US, Canada) principal
- Coordinate terms: headmistress, headteacher
Usage notes
- The term is gender-specific, and refers to a male in the position. A female in the same role would be called a headmistress. In the United States, the shortened version of 'master' was used in few universities to refer to the faculty leader of a residential space regardless of gender.
Translations
the most senior master in a school (male)
- Arabic: مُدِير m (mudīr)
- Bulgarian: директор (bg) m (direktor)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 校長／校长 (zh) (xiàozhǎng)
- Dutch: schoolhoofd (nl) n
- Finnish: rehtori (fi); johtajaopettaja
- French: directeur (fr) m, principal (fr) m (collège), proviseur (fr) m (lycée)
- German: Schulleiter (de) m
- Greek: διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
- Greenlandic: atuarfiit pisortaat, atuarfiup pisortaa
- Hebrew: מְנַהֵל m (menahél)
- Hungarian: igazgató (hu), iskolaigazgató (hu)
- Irish: uachtarán m, ardmháistir m
- Italian: preside (it) m
- Japanese: 校長 (ja) (こうちょう, kōchō)
- Korean: 교장(校長) (ko) (gyojang)
- Manx: ard-vainshtyr m, ard-ynseyder m, ard-er-ynsee m
- Marathi: मुख्याध्यापक (mr) m (mukhyādhyāpak), प्राचार्य m (prācārya)
- Polish: dyrektor (pl) m
- Portuguese: diretor (pt) m
- Romanian: director (ro) m
- Russian: дире́ктор (ru) m (diréktor)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: директор m, равнатељ m
- Roman: director m, ravnatelj (sh) m
- Spanish: director (es)
- Swedish: rektor (sv) c
- Thai: ครูใหญ่ (th) (kruu-yài)
- Ukrainian: дире́ктор (uk) m (dyréktor)
- Vietnamese: hiệu trưởng (vi) (校長)
- Welsh: prifathro (cy) m
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